domestic violence

The police will more thoroughly check gun owners following several murders linked to domestic violence.

Police officers were called in to the home of ex-Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas on Saturday, and the former president was later taken to hospital, Ramunas Matonis, spokesman for the Police Departament, told BNS.

Lithuania's parliament will Friday discuss the effects of ratification of the Istanbul convention for the Baltic state.

A conference to be held in the parliament (Seimas) will review Lithuania's law against domestic violence, which was passed five years ago, how it has worked, and how it might be changed. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

With the tragedy in Kėdainiai district, some Lithuanians are now asking how the Norwegian child welfare service, Barnevernet, would have responded to such an incident and what Lithuania could learn from Norway’s approach.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s U-turn on establishing a new agency to tackle suicide, alcoholism and violence in families in Lithuania may make her a target during the coming election campaign.

Having suggested to set up a new institution to deal with children in at-risk families, President Dalia Grybauskaitė retracted her words, insisting her proposal was rather to institute additional functions that could be carried out by existing bodies.

Around €21 million has been allocated from EU funds and the state budget to fund the creation of community family homes. However, experts said these funds will be not enough to solve the problems of at-risk families.

Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė disagrees with President Dalia Grybauskaitė's proposal to establish a new institution to ensure care for social risk families in response to the tragic events in Kėdainiai district.

A psychiatric examination of the suspect in the investigation of a tragic double homicide in Kėdainiai district has been ordered as forensic experts presented their findings. A father is suspected of having thrown his two kids into a well.

After a tragedy in Kėdainiai District when a father killed his two children by throwing them into a well, the government will consider giving more power to the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told LRT radio.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius ordered the Ministry of Social Security and Labour to carry out an investigation whether there was a proper control over the actions regarding families at risk, what measures have been taken to put an end to domestic violence, after the tragic events in Saviečiai ...

President Dalia Grybauskaitė said not only the state but society as well had to take care of children growing up in dysfunctional families after the tragic events in Saviečiai village in Kėdainiai district when a 36-year-old father killed his two children by throwing them into a well.

After a tragic incident of domestic violence that left two children dead in central Lithuania, the government is setting up a commission to look into what should have been done to prevent it.